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comparative more striking, superlative most striking
Making a strong impression. quotations examples
This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. In complexion fair, and with blue or gray eyes, he was tall as any Viking, as broad in the shoulder.
1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
This worrisome tendency was on display in recent weeks as Israelis reacted with striking vehemence to remarks by UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, and US ambassador to Israel, Daniel Shapiro.
2016 February 6, “Israel’s prickliness blocks the long quest for peace”, in The National, retrieved 8 February 2016
(non-comparable, of employees) On strike, taking part in industrial action. examples
present participle and gerund of strike examples
plural strikings
The act by which something strikes or is struck. quotations examples
We've observed plenty of strikings followed by lightings, so even if we should not say that the strikings cause the lightings, isn't it at least reasonable to predict, and to believe, that the next time we strike a match in similar conditions, it will be followed by a lighting?
2012, Andrew Pessin, Uncommon Sense, page 142